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Graeme Fowler

smoker said:
As someone who is supposedly a mental health ambassador he doesn't seem to manage his own issues particularly well. I think I'd rather employ someone who has developed coping strategies than loses his shit on Twitter before pointing out he's got depression.
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What makes you think it's always possible to manage your issues successfully?
 

Bri said:
What makes you think it's always possible to manage your issues successfully?
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It isn't. Been there and bought the T-shirt. But if you're looking for a mental health ambassador, you could find a better role model than Fowler.

I quote "I'm more famous for being a lunatic than a cricketer". Awful language.
 
smoker said:
It isn't. Been there and bought the T-shirt. But if you're looking for a mental health ambassador, you could find a better role model than Fowler.

I quote "I'm more famous for being a lunatic than a cricketer". Awful language.
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Sign on the wall in Cherry Knowle "You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps" - Gallows humour.
 
Bri said:
Sign on the wall in Cherry Knowle "You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps" - Gallows humour.
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Cherry Knowle was hardly a shining example of compassionate mental health treatment.

Language like this sets back acceptance of mental health issues. But then it's always about him, not the condition, which is why he'd be a crap mental health ambassador.
 
People cant actually read his twitter feed and see him as anything other than an egomaniac with a bit of a nasty streak.

Yet despite this, he has a legion of followers who crawl up his arse and turn a blind eye to the way he acts, the way he speaks to people etc despite the fact he was a bang average cricketer who had one decent knock.
 
Mackem DJ said:
People cant actually read his twitter feed and see him as anything other than an egomaniac with a bit of a nasty streak.

Yet despite this, he has a legion of followers who crawl up his arse and turn a blind eye to the way he acts, the way he speaks to people etc despite the fact he was a bang average cricketer who had one decent knock.
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Having met him in the seventies through a friend who was at University with him the egomaniac moniker certainly fitted but the fact is he had 20 years coaching successfully at DCCU without apparent complaint.
Glowing testament from Strauss who I believe would be sincere.
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